GetSetMethodNormalizer

The normalization process looks at all public methods and calls the ones which have a name starting with get and take no parameters. The result is a map from property names (method name stripped of the get prefix and converted to lower case) to property values. Property values are normalized through the serializer.

The denormalization first looks at the constructor of the given class to see if any of the parameters have the same name as one of the properties. The constructor is then called with all parameters or an exception is thrown if any required parameters were not present as properties. Then the denormalizer walks through the given map of property names to property values to see if a setter method exists for any of the properties. If a setter exists it is called with the property value. No automatic denormalization of the value takes place.

This method also allows to denormalize data into an existing object if it is present in the context with the object_to_populate. This object is removed from the context before being returned to avoid side effects when recursively normalizing an object graph.